Jamaicans.com 2009 Book Drive

Support The 8th Jamaicans.com Annual Jamaica Book Drive.The next three months, (April – June 2009) Jamaicans.com is holding a book drive to benefit the Allen-Shaw Reading Room in Jamaica with a goal of collecting 80 children’s books by June 30th, 2009. We are asking for your help. We hope to distribute the books in Jamaica by August […]

Dealing with the BIG “R”

Recession and Redundancy are the buzz words these days and all of us are affected directly or indirectly. While some companies are caught squarely in the economic crunch and have no other choice but to painstakingly part company with some of their workers, there are others no doubt that are using the present situation as […]

Reaper of Souls: A Novel of the 1957 Kendal Crash – Jamaican Book Review

About the Book :The Kendal crash was, at the time, the world’s worst train catastrophe and the worst disaster in Jamaica’s history, taking more than 250 lives, including 14 from East’s family. Using the disaster as a backdrop, as well as eyewitness and survivor accounts, archival photographs, and the Commission of Inquiry Report (1958), East […]

Interview with Jamaican Dog Sledder, Damian Robb

Jamaican BonHommes (Snowmen) A few months ago, some interesting information was posted in our Sports Discussion Forum about new Jamaican sportsmen travelling away from the warmth, sun and sand to participate in a fairly unknown sport, one of man and beast – the Dogsled Race. A couple years ago, while in Edmonton, Canada, Danny Melville from Chukka […]